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14 May 2019 | Story Thabo Kessah | Photo Sonia Small
Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe
Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe.

The University of the Free State’s 2019 graduation season is continuing this week when over 800 degrees, diplomas, and certificates will be conferred during the Qwaqwa Campus graduation ceremonies on 17 and 18 May 2019.

All degrees in the Faculties of the Humanities, and Natural and Agricultural Sciences will be conferred on Friday. On Saturday, it will be the turn of the Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences, and Education.

Among the degrees to be conferred will be four PhDs and nine master’s degrees in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, and one PhD and three master’s in the Faculty of Education. The Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences will also confer its very first PhD to the Assistant Dean, Dr Calvin Mudzingiri.

Three members of the current Student Representative Council (SRC) and six from the 2017-2018 group will be graduating.

Dr Musawenkosi Saurombe, Africa’s youngest PhD graduate, will address graduands on both days.


WATCH: 17 May 2019 Graduation Ceremony
10:00 Faculties of the Humanities and Natural and Agricultural Sciences 
All qualifications
Graduation Programme

18 May 2019
10:00 Faculties of Economic and Management Sciences and Education
All qualifications
Graduation Programme


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Three Kovsies in the SA u.20 Rugby Junior World Champions squad
2008-05-15

Three Kovsies were selected for the SA u.20 Rugby Junior World Championship which will take place in Wales during June.

The three who made it to the final squad are PW van Vuuren, Wilton Pietersen and Robert Ebersohn.

The 7 Kovsies in the initial squad were PW van Vuuren, Wilton Pietersen, Robert Ebersohn, Earl Snyman, Cameron Jacobs, Marlin Ruiters and Sias Ebersohn.

Van Vuuren and Pietersen both played for the SA u.19 team in 2007. Robert Ebersohn is a first-year student at Kovsies. Pietersen and Ebersohn, who played for the SA Sevens earlier this year, will be in action on Friday in the Vodacom Cup final clash between the Cheetahs and the Bulls.

All three these players played for the Shimlas in the FNB Varsity Cup.

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